Foxy Digitalis
There’s something about the way nostalgia crystallizes around technology, how the limitations of old machines become their most expressive qualities, how the crude becomes luminous through the alchemy of distance. Joe Bastardo understands this transformation intimately. Working as Bastian Void for over a decade, he has spent years excavating the emotional residue left by vintage […]
There’s something almost geological about the way trauma settles into memory; layer upon layer accumulating until what was once fluid hardens into something you can build upon, or break against. Ted Laderas understands this kind of sediment intimately. The Portland-based cellist and composer has spent the last several years excavating his own relationship to catastrophe, […]
There’s a circular window in Andy Puls’s recording hut that frames the canyon like a lens, and through it, the seasons write themselves into his music. The Solar Cell, both the name of his remote 8×12-foot studio and his fifth album as A Magic Whistle, exists in that liminal space where human craft meets natural […]
There’s a moment in the middle of Yui Onodera’s conversation where he describes his favorite sound as silence itself: “the ultimate rest, the finest pause.” It’s a revelation that makes perfect sense when considering his final contribution to the Waterworks trilogy, a release that finds beauty in the spaces between sound as much as in […]
rRoxymore has spent the last decade mapping out a singular space within electronic music, somewhere between the dancefloor and deep interior terrain. Across releases that span textured techno, psych-tinged ambient, and fractured rhythmic experiments, her work has consistently resisted linear genre markers in favor of something more fluid, intuitive, and emotionally rich. With Juggling Dualities, […]
Portland-based artist and musician Lila Jarzombek has been steadily building a world of her own through sound. Working under the name Nowhere Flower, her latest album Heat Dome feels both elemental and surreal, tender and scorched. It’s a flickering, home-recorded constellation of guitar sketches, drum machines, flutes, synths, and layered vocal textures that drift more […]
Chad Kouri’s debut album Mixed feels like both an arrival and a return. It’s a record built on improvisation, memory, and spirit, where melody emerges from presence and rhythm becomes a form of inquiry. Drawing from ancestral threads and everyday sounds, Kouri creates a listening space that feels open and reflective. Saxophone lines move alongside […]
Max Eilbacher’s Live in Turin doesn’t document a performance so much as it summons a perceptual event. Sound bends into shape, unravels again, and coalesces into something momentarily tangible. Built from sketches of digital systems, spectral forms, and sculpted densities, the piece traverses slow shifts in focus and frames of attention, asking the listener to […]
Some records feel less like documents and more like vessels, carrying grief, memory, and longing in forms that language alone can’t contain. Kadahin Milandaasin, the latest from drummer and composer Tarun Balani, unfolds with patience and emotional depth. Its textures are spacious and deliberate, shaped by ambient drift, devotional resonance, and a rhythmic language that […]